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TALLAHASSEE — Sen. David Simmons on Tuesday asked for a week-long delay on a final vote for the Citizens Property Insurance Corp bill he is carrying — but not because he doesn't have the votes to pass it. The bill, SB 1770, makes a host of changes

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TALLAHASSEE — Sen. David Simmons on Tuesday asked for a week-long delay on a final vote for the Citizens Property Insurance Corp bill he is carrying — but not because he doesn't have the votes to pass it. The bill, SB 1770, makes a host of changes

Tell those danged politicians to take their hands off our gubberment property insurance!
That's the hue and cry coming from Sinkhole Alley, where homeowners are getting a firsthand taste of Florida's free-market insurance reforms.
They stormed a...

You are underwriting insurance for 500 beachfront mansions worth a combined $2.6 billion.
If a big hurricane hits Florida and blows them down, you will be taxed to put them back together.
This is because the owners buy insurance from state-owned...

I am amused by Rick Scott's claims of victory in this legislative session.
This was House Speaker Dean Cannon's party.
Scott entered the Governor's Office as a wildly firing cannon.
It was Cannon who aimed the cannon at the targets he wanted to hit,...

How to file an insurance claim
Try to call your insurance agent immediately.
Begin making temporary repairs to prevent further damage.
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In this edition of the Friday Files, we're looking at everything from political lies to a contest for Florida's most unpopular politician.But first, I have a game for you to play:This year, while no one was looking, President Barack Obama made Florida's...

I just got this mind-numbing number on sinkhole losses. The state-owned Citizens Property Insurance has paid out a whopping $867 million because of sinkhole claims between 2004 and 2010. To cover those losses, Citizens collected $272 million in sinkhole premiu

A Republican state senator is making a last deserate attempt to make sure people in Orlando continue subsidizing property insurance on the coast. This comes from Sen. Mike Fasano, who happens to be from New Port Richey. When last I wrote about Citizens, legisl

By Paige St. John, Sarasota Herald-Tribune Gov. Rick Scott has secretly pushed to kill Citizens Property Insurance before his first term ends, a goal that alarmed even representatives of private insurance companies seeking to remove Citizens as a competitor, t

If you are going to make a fact error and have to write a correction, it might as well be a good one. With that said, the story in the St. Petersburg Times seemed too good to be true. I have long ranted against the state-run Citizens Property Insurance, which

TALLAHASSEE – Two opposing worldviews of Florida’s insurance market are clashing as the Senate debates a broad insurance de-regulatory bill that the industry has been pushing. In the new pro-industry, post-Charlie Crist chamber, senators beat back an amendment

TALLAHASSEE — Florida lawmakers plan to keep discussing prisons, jobs, the courts, drugs and budgets today. The House Economic Affairs Committee leads things off at 8:30 a.m. with a dozen bills on the agenda, including an onsite sewage treatment proposal

TALLAHASSEE — Florida lawmakers begin their second week of session today with redistricting action on the Senate floor and House committees vetting everything from sewage bills and homestead exemptions to murder penalties and the federal health-care refo

TALLAHASSEE — Good morning and welcome to the Monday edition of the morning reads. Last week, the halfway point of the session, saw the passage of redistricting maps in the House, plus the end of the road for the gambling bill. And a controversial priso

TALLAHASSEE — The Florida House is slated to take up its proposed $69.2 billion budget today, while the Senate is inching closer to producing one of its own. Welcome to Day 30 of the 2012 legislative session — the official midpoint, if you believe

TALLAHASSEE — The Florida House GOP leadership split Tuesday over a Senate plan to let unregulated “surplus lines” insurers take policies out of the state-run Citizens Property Insurance Corp. — but only if the policyholders agree to be

By Michael Peltier, The News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — Citizens Property Insurance Corp. will explore charging new customers potentially much higher rates but backed away from final approval Thursday following pushback from consumers, lawmakers an

TALLAHASSEE — Likening it to a “single payer” socialized system, a cadre of two dozen legislators — most of them from Central Florida and other inland locales — has written an open letter to the new head of the state-run Citizens

TALLAHASSEE — Florida Insurance Consumer Advocate Robin Westcott has released a new-and-improved ”assessment calculator” designed to provide a friendly reminder to those of you who purchase insurance that if a catastrophic hurricane strikes,

TALLAHASSEE — Good morning and welcome to the morning reads. Here are the top five stories we're reading this morning. * A key schools' group is urging the state to place less emphasis on standardized testing, the Orlando Sentinel reports. * Senate Presi